Lena, known as Libby, was born in 1916. Libby's father was Mendel (Max) Katz and her mother was Fraidel (Ida) Factorovitz. Her paternal grandfather was Joseph Katz and her paternal grandmother is <Unknown>. She had a brother and two sisters, named George, Rose and Alice . She was the youngest of the four children. She died at the age of 55 in 1971.